Not every gain/loss is necessarily a financial one.Gains/losses may be in the eye of the beholder.

The UK (or more specifically, the voters in the UK) may feel that some gains that they will derive from Brexit may revolve around things such as sovereignty (right to control who comes into their country). And can those gains all be quantified into terms of dollars or pounds?

Taking it one step further, does the UK (or voters in the UK) have an obligation to somehow feel responsible for the losses that someone in another country incur?Are Brits justified in firstly considering what is best for the UK, and then only after that, consider what is best for others?

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Not every gain/loss is necessarily a financial one.Gains/losses may be in the eye of the beholder.

The UK (or more specifically, the voters in the UK) may feel that some gains that they will derive from Brexit may revolve around things such as sovereignty (right to control who comes into their country). And can those gains all be quantified into terms of dollars or pounds?

Taking it one step further, does the UK (or voters in the UK) have an obligation to somehow feel responsible for the losses that someone in another country incur?Are Brits justified in firstly considering what is best for the UK, and then only after that, consider what is best for others?

Free people can do silly decisions.

Shit happens.

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<< ... some gains that they will derive from Brexit may revolve around things such as sovereignty (right to control who comes into their country). And can those gains all be quantified into terms of dollars or pounds?>>

They probably can be eventually ... the pounds spent giving out the warnings to the rapists ... the pounds spent counseling the raped ... the pounds spent by courts letting off those who run over others with their cars and trucks ... the pounds spent by the hospitals trying to save the lives of those run over by cars and trucks ... the extra taxes the non-moozlims brits have to pay to provide ever increasing amounts of cargo to the moozlims ... etc etc etc ... it all adds up ... and the faster they arrive the faster it adds up ...

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There's nothing in Article 50 about doing that, so legally, no, we don't.

And we shouldn't pay anything without something in exchange, which the EU seems to have a problem in understanding. The way things are going at the moment the EU is going to get zip, because the EU refuses to offer anything.

Theresa May simply cannot hand over 40 billion that she doesn't have to without getting something back, if she did she'd be thrown out of office instantly by Brexiteer Tory MPs, and someone more hardline will take over. Even the EU is slowly waking up to this reality.

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